BLC 11 Five Minutes of Fame
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BLC11 FIVE MINUTES OF FAME Brenda Leicht Department of Biology The University of Iowa
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BLC 11 Five Minutes of Fame. Brenda Leicht Department of Biology The University of Iowa. The Lecture Hall for Introductory Biology. How do you make a huge intro course student-centered?. Clicker questions and surveys Student participation in lecture demonstrations The Lab! Small size - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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BLC11FIVE MINUTES OF FAME
Brenda LeichtDepartment of BiologyThe University of Iowa
The Lecture Hall for Introductory Biology
How do you make a huge intro course student-centered?
Clicker questions and surveys Student participation in lecture
demonstrations The Lab!
Small size “Active” and “hands on” by nature
Foundations of Biology 1st course of two required intro courses for
our majors Launched in Fall 2012 Co-instructed with Bryant McAllister
Both of us had attended HHMI Summer Institute in Summer 2010
Both of us had attended TILE institute at UI (UI version of Scale-Up)
Laboratory exercises from old first semester course were completely overhauled.
Project-Based Lab Design Three multi-week Projects
Project 1 – Investigating Cell Organelles and Cellular Metabolism
Project 2 – Transmission Genetics and Linkage Analysis in Drosophila
Project 3 – Investigating Genetics Variation in Populations Wet Lab – Dry Lab rotation
Two wet labs – experimental procedures first are learned and then performed
Two dry labs – hypotheses are explored, experiments are planned and results predicted; data are analyzed and interpreted; connections are made to lecture content
Guided Inquiry
The TILE Classroom for Dry Lab
TILE: Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage
